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Palantir has a P/E near 500. Can Alex Karp justify the price?

Karp believes Big Tech needs to refocus on military and national-security work, once at the heart of Silicon Valley’s origins.

Fortune

‘The bot asked me four times a day how I was feeling’: is tracking everything actually good for us?

Gathering data used to be a fringe pursuit of Silicon Valley nerds. Now we’re all at it, recording everything from menstrual cycles and mobility to toothbrushing and time spent in daylight. Is this just narcissism redesigned for the big tech age?

The Guardian - UK

Crypto and big tech’s backing pays off as Trump makes tech-friendly moves

Flurry of directives relaxes regulations and drops lawsuit – and billionaires who donated to Trump are ready to benefit

The Guardian - US

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China: Xi Jinping has learned from Trump’s first trade war and is ready to fight back

The start of 2025 has been good for China and its reputation as a high-tech innovator. The unveiling of the Chinese-made artificial intelligence (AI) tool, DeepSeek, caused consternation on the US stock exchange and from potential competitors in Silicon Valley.

The Conversation

Gecko Robotics CEO: How I bucked the trend of Silicon Valley’s monopoly on frontier tech

Gecko Robotics turned down a billionaire’s investment offer because of a demand cofounder Jake Loosararian couldn’t live with.

Fortune

US and UK out of step with rest of the world on AI

Why the Paris summit on artificial intelligence failed and how Silicon Valley is toeing the Trump administration’s line

The Guardian - US

Top Palantir execs slam Silicon Valley for focusing on 'trivial yet solvable inconveniences' instead of tackling national problems

"The age of social-media platforms and food-delivery apps had arrived. Medical breakthroughs, education reform, and military advances would have to wait."

Fortune

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Inside the ‘Zizians’: How a cultish crew of radical vegans became linked to killings across the United States

They seemed like just another band of anarchist misfits scraping by on the fringes of Silicon Valley — until the deaths began. Io Dodds unravels the complex web of ideology, friendship, and bloody violence that has baffled investigators nationwide

The Independent UK

If the AI Roundheads go to war with tech royalty, don’t bet against them

Silicon Valley wants to spend a fortune on the fantasy of human-level intelligence. But there are more practical and valuable things to achieve

The Guardian - UK

Silicon Valley’s Sleeping Giant? Intel’s Comeback in Focus

Investor enthusiasm is building around Intel as government support and partnership speculation hint at a resurgence for the chip giant.

MarketBeat

Why are Elon Musk and Sam Altman engaged in a war of words over OpenAI?

Two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent tech titans are at loggerheads over the future of the creator of ChatGPT.

Al Jazeera

Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg in forums for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’

Meta layoffs mark a new and harsher era for the company and Silicon Valley at large.

Fortune

Workday Introduces Centralized Platform for AI Agent Management

Workday, an HR giant based out of Silicon Valley, has announced a new centralized platform that allows enterprises to manage all their AI agents. The

Geekflare

DeepSeek: how China’s embrace of open-source AI caused a geopolitical earthquake

We are in the early days of a seismic shift in the global AI industry. DeepSeek, a previously little-known Chinese artificial intelligence company, has produced a “game changing”“ large language model that promises to reshape the AI landscape almost overnight.

The Conversation

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Sam Altman says Trump has ushered in a 'vibe shift' in Silicon Valley

Sam Altman, along with several other major tech leaders, has embraced the new administration and its tech-friendly policies.

The Guardian - UK

In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted

Democracy’s traditional defence against fascism doesn’t work against the new far-right hybrid coded in Silicon Valley, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Fortune

AI might already be warping our brains, leaving our judgment and critical thinking 'atrophied and unprepared,' warns new study

Silicon Valley and the Trump administration are embracing AI, but the technology has troubling implications for critical thinking, according to a new Microsoft study.

Windows Central

OpenAI CEO touts Trump's hands-on approach with $500B Stargate project as a "welcome breath of fresh air" — Altman predicts a "vibe shift" in Silicon Valley

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently touted President Trump's approach to tech and AI as opposed to Biden's "hostile" takes.

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The Guardian - US

Zuckerberg’s swerve: how diversity went from being a Meta priority to getting cancelled

Meta once invested millions and attracted top talent as tech’s leader in corporate diversity. After those aspirations peaked in 2019, the company scuttled them altogether

GamesRadar

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 dev says the original RPG attracted an audience "sort of like Euro Truck Simulator," with "quite a lot of people who never play games"

SCS Software still has the "nicest offices" in the Czech Republic: "They've built up their own Silicon Valley kind of thing"

International Business Times

US Marine Vet Acquitted In NY Subway Death Joins Tech Firm

A US Marine veteran who was acquitted in the chokehold death of a homeless man on the New York subway -- a high-profile case highlighting the divisive issue of race in America -- has been hired by a major Silicon Valley firm allied with Donald Trump.

The Independent UK

Daniel Penny is hired by top Silicon Valley investment firm months after being acquitted in Subway chokehold case

‘I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation. He was acquitted of all charges’, read a memo from the firms’ general partner

The Independent UK

Bill Gates says Elon Musk has been ‘mean’ to him — but he still wants to work together

Microsoft co-founder tells The Independent he’s ‘surprised’ by prominent Silicon Valley figures backing President Trump

The Guardian - UK

DeepSeek has ripped away AI’s veil of mystique. That’s the real reason the tech bros fear it

While privacy fears are justified, the main beef Silicon Valley has is that China’s chatbot is democratising the technology

Evening Standard

Croydon ‘could become the UK’s answer to Silicon Valley’, data shows

Research by GoDaddy suggests town is leaving the rest of London in its wake

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